A challenge - What can be done with other builders which with Mobirise can't?

Since recently I see some fellow forum members shouting out loud the names of Mobirise Builder alternatives I decided creating this discussion as a challenge. Challenge to all of us, our creativity and the capabilities of the Builder.

So here is the deal:

Is there something you've seen in done in another builder and couldn't replicate it in Mobirise Builder?

And since this is a challenge - let's try figuring out if it's really impossible or just needs a bit of creative thinking

Personally I'm planning to take active place in ths - as soon as someone pints out a specific case I'll put my mind to it providing a sollution. An maybe will even succseed !

And since I'm far from thinking I'm the most literate or experienced around here I hope some of you - the expert members will give a little hand too

Why I'm doing this? Generally to try putting some definite clarity on the matter. It's easy to just say - this software is better, this is the best and so on - a bit more difficult though is pruving it. A client and a friend gunning a great botique restaurant shared a story the other day: He said when somebody comes shouting out loud complaining about something in the restaurant he calmly listens to everything the client has to say - offends, insults, everything - and than just asks "OK, what made you think this way?" My friend shared that more than half of the people just stood silent trying to just then figure out what exactly.

So let's put the capabilities of my (and probably yours ) favorite tool to a test with real life examples and see where this will take us - I have the feeling the quest will be quite interesting

I personally am loving Mobirise. I have already redesigned 3 websites with it.

All of my prior work was done with Xara Designer Pro. Great software, but lacks a few things I like such as parallax. Still a really amazing program.

I am now learning Bootstrap Studio, but there is considerable coding that needs to be done by hand.

Again, Mobirise will be my go to, but they really need more flexibility built in and need to work out a few simple bugs like links ( currently it take several attempts to get them to stick,) photo sizing and resizing, the ability to have text flow around an image (Xara allows an image to be placed anywhere and the text will flow around it with padding that the user defines in pixels,) sticky footers would be nice and PHP mail handling would be better too. I know others have their wishlist.

I'm sticking with Mobirise. It's beautiful and I know that the developers are working to make it the best. I will continue to pay for premium add ons as long as they keep giving me useful tools.

yes agree @Ricvksworks, i also enjoy MObirise and think it is great what developers are doing. Yes quite a few hiccups but for something free... excellent. what you have said re links/sticky footers and my annoyance with how it saves and enlarges images (which is hugely annoying to all).... imagine these will be ironed out at some stage (hopefully soon)

and... a huge thank you to Filyov for all he (and others) is/ are doing to help out developers - and us.

would be glad to hear your suggestions about improving this or maybe making it work differently. I did notice though making the footer sticky (especially having in mind these basically carry more info) drastically smashes the area usable for viewing the site. Maybe I'm missing something though

Regarding the floating images - here is a trick:

You can use the link feature to insert any image at any place in your text content and even handle some of its options through the inline editor. This also works for embeding any kind of HTML content including iframes and PFD elements (using the embed tag) In a few words for the images what you need to do is this:

Compose your image - since you're inserting it inline - make it small natively to reduce the load on your server - it will be reduced anyway .

Navigate to its position with your file browser and copy the link in the adress bar.

Open a new tab in your browser (tested this with Mozilla but will probably work on others too ) and paste the link you've just copied. DO NOT hit Enter. Place your cursor in front of the string and type file:/// hit Tab - you'll see the slashes automatically reversed. This of course is an optional step but if you like playing it lazy (as I do ) I think you'll apprechiate it. Don't forget to add your image's file name (including extension ) at the end of the string of and hit Enter to check if the link is composed correctly.

Here I added just the basic stuff - like custom size and padding - add more if you like to. Skip the floats - you'll assign them later on through the inline editor Go to your Mobirise project and add a dummy word at the place you want the image to be. Select it and choose the link option. In the link text place the tag you've just generated leaving the link target as is. Due to the good old stubborn link dialog box behaviour - repeat this step untill it sticks

Click on the inserted image and set the floats - left / right. You'll see some other options like 100 / 50 / 25 % width settings and bordering - play around with them to get what you need

Do note when you select the image there also is a control handle in the bottom right corner - use it to freely change the size of the image by just dragging to the desired size. This way the image gets absolute dimensions in pixels which remain this way in all viewport widths. That's the reason I personally prefer setting the width in percent so the image gets proportionally scaled down on viewport reduction

If you need to change the styling code - just place your cursor after the image in text and click on the edit link to access the link dialog box and shange the code. Once more - repeat as many times as neccessary until accepted

I suppose the margins are the ones to play with if you need the image pushed further inside text btw

There is an extension by a third party developer but personally I had some hird time with a project messed up BIG TIME with something which came from this guy so my suggestion is - avoid it.

So Rick, please give these a try and let me know if they worked. @chi_d , thanks for apprechiating my humble efforts I do enjoy spending time here nevertheless my Facebook friends don't here a lot from me lately I thought about what you say about the images and here is what - why don't you take a look at this posts:

and try playing around with the media resizement feature. Now that we're talking - I do recall there was a list of things you needed for you photo showcases and I actually was planning to take some playing around with it but at a certain point it kind of missed this up - could you please send me the link to this list

@sandro267480 , my brother - thank you for this one ! That's why I called this discussion a challange! Will take some time with it - I'm tasting it will be interesting. I'll keep you updated

@filyov am having so many projects done with mobirise online. Many projects are under construction too. U know that since long time am with u to sort out things. But basically dont have time since am not a full time webdesigner. But still am into webdesigning since 1999 and have clients all over the world.

When people started mentioning other softwares seriously i went and had a look into them. And found each one has got advantage and disadvantage. Did not find mobirise inferior anywhere. Perhaps mobirise is superior in many ways. Faster and easiest software anyone can handle. We know from the basic theme where mobirise stands now. It has gone far ahead. Just few issues need to be sorted out. That will be done by mobirise team.

I think @filyov and me are happy with mobirise because we learnt how to handle the issues till mobirise fix it in next release.

I have encountered serious issues many times and had reported to @support and they had responded to it very effectively.

And seriously let me suggest: instead of mentioning other softwares try to suggest here what all improvements required in mobirise

Very good information Filyov and Dentaura. Please don't get me wrong, I have replaced several different webdesign software with Mobirise. I am sticking it out because I know all of the bugs will be fixed and many features will be added. All of my clients are more than happy with the results.

I am not a web designer by trade... I am a television commercial producer who just happens to like web design (just another creative outlet for me.)

WWB is a much better program than Mobirise and there are far more possibilities, but of course, requires far more knowledge. I'm now converted to Mobirise because I'm lazy to make breakpoints for responsive.Mobirise should be much easier to use, but it is so full of bugs that is useless , unless you just need an undemanding, simple page.